Shock-loader.



N0. 845,638. PATENTED FEB. 26, 1907.

H. HENDRICKSON.

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APILIOATION FILED JUNE 21. 1906-.

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H. HENDRIGKSON.

SHOCK LOADER. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 21, 1905.

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Be it known that I, HENRY HENDnioKsoN,

. a citizen of the United States, residing at Rushford, in the countyof'E-illmore and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Shock- Loaders; and I do declare the following tobe a full, clear, and exact description of the 111- the machine acrossthe field.

- in bearings on the said standards. ()11 the ends Another object is toprovide a shock or bundle loader with eflicient and reliable means forraking the bundle from the ground onto a traveling apron which carriesthe bundle up and deposits it into a wagon at the rear end of themachine.

Still another obiect is to provide a shock or bundle loader with meansfor attaching two horses in front at the sides of the machine andconnecting the two horses Which carry the wagon centrally at the rear ofthe machine.

These and other objects are attained by means of the constructionillustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whieh- Figure 1 is a sideview and partial section of a bundle or shock loader made in accordancewith my invention. Fig.2 is a plan view of the same. Fig. 3 is atransverse section on the line 1 1, Fig. 1 and Fig. 4 is a detaillongitudinal section showing one of the rakes and the manner ofsupporting the same upon the frame of the machine.

Referring to the drawings for a more particular description of myinvention, the numeral 1 designates the frame of the machine. (Hereshown as composed of longitudinalbars a and standards b at the rear endsthereof.) The guards or side-boards 17 of the elevator 3 are secured tothe front ends of said bars and the upper ends of said standards.Inclined braces c extend from the rear ends of said bars a to the rearportions of the said uards or side-boards. The axle 2 is mounted of theaxle 2 are mounted wheels 4, and the front end of the frame of themachine is su ported upon pilot-wheels 5. Secured to tl fe axle of thewheels 4 are the spur-gears 6-, which mesh with the spur-pinions 7,mounted upon Specification of Letters .Patent.

rakes 27, crank-shaft 2-8, mounted in bearings secured v Patented Feb.26,1907.

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the ends of a shaft 8, to which is secured the sprocket-wheels 9.Sprocket-chains 10 pass around. the sprocket-wheels 9 and oversprocket-wheels 11, mounted upon the ends of the shaft 12;

The elevator or conveyer consists of a canvas belt 13, having slats 14secured thereto at intervals and provided with upwardlyprojecting pointsor prongs 15, said belt adapted to pass. over the rollers 16, mounted torotate in the sides of the guards or sideboards 17. Sprocket-chains 18are secured at the sides of the apron or belt 13, and these cl'iains'are engaged. by the sprocket-wheels 1.1, 19, and 20 for moving the belt,said sprocket 19 and 20 being located at the opposite ends of'theelevator. Secured to the frame 1 and projecting in front thereof are aseries of rake-bars 21, said bars being .ivotally mounted upon the shaft22 an permitted to move up and down at their front endsas the machine ismoved along over the ground. A supplemental frame comprising uprightbars 23 and rearWardly-extending ba'rs24 has secured thereto aguide-bar-25, provided with guide-openings 26 for the said rakes being connectedto the to the bars 23 24. A s ur-wheel d is secured on one end of saidsha t and engages a similar wheel on a stub-shaft e. A sprocketwheel 31revolves with said wheel and is connected to a sprocket-wheel 30 on theshaft f, which carries the sprocket-wheel 19. It is to be noted that thecrank-shaft 28 is provided with three cranks set at different angles tothe longitudinal axis of the shaft, and as the rake-bars 27 aresecuredto these cranks and move at their rear ends throu h guide-openin. s 26the downwardlyexten ing curved en s 32 of the rakes are movedalternately downward, rearward, and upward to rake a bundle or shockfrom the ground onto the forks or rods 21, from which the conveyer-belt13 receives the shock or bundle and carries it up and out of the rearend thereof, being assisted in this operation by means of the points orprongs 15.

Projecting backward and downward from the rear end of the guard-board 17is a chute -33, from which the bundles are discharged into a wagon.Secured to the frame of the machine and mounted upon diagonally-extending crossed bars 34,?[1 rear of the axle, is a clevis or socket 36,to which the front end of the tongue 37 of the wagon 35 is secured.

The object'ofithis construotion is-to utilize the team which carries theload of bundles or shocks in propelling the machine across the. .field.At the front and sides of the machine Jare swingletrees 38, secured upona doubletree 59, extending across at the front-of the} frame themachine, thus aiding in securing a light and equal draft of the machine--Various ghanges inthe rorm, proportion,

and the minor details 'ciple or sacrificing any 01 theadvantages' of tthis invention as defined claim Having thus' described my invention,What. and desire to seoure by-Let-t ters Patent, is. .7 I p j In a shoekloader, the combination of a. main frame, supportingfwheels for thefront end-thereof; an axle near the center thereof,' f driving and,supporting Wheels on said axle, gears revolu'ble therewith,supportingrollers mounted at difierent elevations at the and by th appnded I laim as new,

front," center and rear of the frame, an end- '1BS I16lined conveyer onsaid rollers, a'shaft of construction may be resortedto withoutdeparting from the'prim,

with sprocket-wheels, sprocket-whe 'giowelirollef,zandendlesssprooket-ehains 0011- wneetingsaid roller sprocket wheels andthose ofit he last inentioned shaft, eubs tagntifllly as "described 1 4nesses having pinions engaging the gears andfurther provided withsprocket-wheels, sprocketwheelspn'the center roller, endless sprocket-'ehains oonnecting the sproCket-wheels 0f the center roller, arake atframe a'shaft mounted above-{the lowergnided and supported by the guidea shaftlmoun'ted below the orank element,

of the f prank-shaft, and further provided es onthe 1 In testimonywhereof i'hav e hereuntoset my handin'presence' of two'sub'scribingj'wit- HENRY HE NnRIoKson:

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A. P. PAULSON, 0:1 EMERSON.

with spursaid crankmounted in the frame above the axle and portion ofthe'conveyer, having a plurality of s ngularly-disposed -oranks, andprovided at its ends gears, a guide element in'rear of shaft, rake-barsattached to and operated by I the respective cranks and having theirrear portions shaft and ha iing spur-gears engaging those

